Change EditBox Color Directly?

[Tzalmaves]

Howdy Y'all,

Instead of changing an Edit Control's background and text color by responding to the WM_CTLCOLOR message, I tried to do the following:

m_hEditBox = CreateWindow("EDIT",NULL,WS_CHILD|ES_AUTOHSCROLL|ES_AUTOVSCROLL|ES_MULTILINE|ES_WANTRETURN,
100,100,100,100, (HMENU) 1, NULL, NULL);
		
HDC editBoxDC = GetDC(m_hEditBox);
		
SetBkMode(editBoxDC, TRANSPARENT);
SetBkColor(editBoxDC, RGB(255,255,0));
SetTextColor(editBoxDC, RGB(0,0,255));
ShowWindow(m_hEditBox,SW_SHOW);		
ReleaseDC(m_hEditBox, editBoxDC);

...While the edit control appears in the appropriate location, the background and text colors are unchanged. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

-TM